Korea GSD hosts one of the very best Beer and Dogs* events of the year because they prepare Korean food and a dance performance. This year, the Graduate School of Education (GSE) also sent a group to perform.

The GSE team. I wish I could dance.

The GSD team. They did us proud.

And now [insert graceful segue here]...Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark and rising political star, gave an inspiring talk at the Harvard Law School at lunchtime today, about the political challenges facing America.

Thanks for reading!
Lian

*Beer and Dogs is a Friday evening social event sponsored every Friday during the semester by the Landscape Architecture Students, and one of the GSD's most hallowed traditions.

P.S. Our studio final is on April 27, so this is the homestretch! I'll post my project after the final. There's not much to post right now. [haha...nervous laughter]

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Lectures and exhibitions, news and events, now primarily from the Bay Area!
Please note that all live blogs are abridged and approximate. If you want to see exactly what happened, in many cases a video of the event is posted online by the event's hosts.